Authentic, uninhibited without being indecent: the gaze that director Lizzie Borden points at a small group of Manhattan sex workers in Working Girls remains as convincing as ever. Without judgment, Borden looks at the day-to-day life of the employees of a brothel. We are introduced to their clients, to their boss – but above all […]
From a cluttered news landscape dominated by men emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women (women who are part of India’s lowest caste). Armed with smartphones, chief reporter Meera and her team of journalists break traditions, be it on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues or within the confines of their homes, redefining what […]
Igloolik, Nunavut, 2000 BCE. Teenage lovers Kaujak (Theresia Kappianaq) and Sapa (Haiden Angutimarik) were promised to each other at birth. After the sudden death of Kaujak’s father, her mother marries a man from another camp tearing the two apart. The promise of a better life quickly turns to a nightmare, with aggressive suitors backed by […]
Yesterday, Thinking of Tomorrow Co-presented by the Fondation PHI pour l’art contemporain: Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Relic Traveller: Where You And I Come From, We Know That We Are Not Here Forever by Larry Achiampong, this screening reunites the works of Gillian Dykeman, Larry Achiampong, and long-term collaborator David Blandy. In Finding Fanon […]
New 4K Restoration The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an […]
August 17th screening with filmmaker Jennifer Wickham in attendance Spanning more than a decade, YINTAH follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from the Canadian government and several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth.
Screening in collaboration with La Coop Vidéo de Montréal, with filmmaker Yann Gonzalez in attendance Hideous (Yann Gonzalez, 2022, 22 minutes) Popstar Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame and blood. A three-part musical short. You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez, 2013, 98 […]
Leo, a lonely, anxious pizza delivery guy, stumbles upon John, a mysterious taxi driver seeking lonesome souls. This unusual encounter throws the young man into a dizzying delirium, disrupting his blossoming romance with Rita. As the leaves start falling from the trees, days are getting shorter, and the cold is settling in… Luckily, the first […]
Feature preceded by short film SOUS LE SOLEIL EXACTEMENT by Noa Blanche Beschorner An adaptation of “Sea Foam,” a chapter in Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò, Piñeiro’s latest is an intimate and expansive meditation on death and desire and a thrilling exploration of the possibilities of adapting text to film. In “Sea Foam,” Pavese stages […]